Terry Glavin: It was less in pity than in anger...

Quote	It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we're all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna. Copy
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Quote: After about 20 years of marriage, I'm finally starting to scratch the surface of what women want. And I think the answer lies somewhere between conversation and chocolate.
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Mel Gibson
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After about 20 years...

Quote: Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.
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E. W. Howe
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Never tell a secret...

Quote: You don't want to pretend that 9/11 ended in 2002 with the first anniversary. So how do you frame the post-9/11 world and play a productive role in discussing it?
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Jake Barton
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You don't want to...

Quote: The most important part of the process of mourning is regularly reciting kaddish in a synagogue. Kaddish is a doxology, which Jewish tradition has mandated children to recite daily in a synagogue during the year of mourning for a deceased parent and then on the anniversary of his or her death thereafter.
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David Novak
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The most important part...

Quote: Perhaps a hundred people assembled one evening, May 15, 1876, at the time when the country was celebrating the hundredth anniversary of its political independence.
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Felix Adler
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Perhaps a hundred people...

Quote: Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
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H. L. Mencken
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Strike an average between...

Quote: Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!
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Patrice Leconte
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Married people from my...

Quote: That there's no more important decision in life than who you marry.
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Brad Paisley
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That there's no more...

Quote: The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.
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Edmund Morgan
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The three hundredth anniversary...

Quote: Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.
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Barbara Hershey
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Yes, it was love...

Quote: I never planned to join Black Sabbath - it just happened. It was back in 1979 when they were celebrating their 10th anniversary.
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Ronnie James Dio
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I never planned to...

Quote: You marry somebody; you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
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Chris Daughtry
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You marry somebody; you...

Quote: Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.
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Michael McCaul
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Last week, the House...

Quote: On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Tom Lantos
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On July 18, we...

Quote: I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.
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Wale
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I dated a lot,...

Quote: We celebrate Valentine Day, but no one remembers Bhagat Singh birth anniversary.
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Yo Yo Honey Singh
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We celebrate Valentine Day,...

Quote: Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.
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William O. Douglas
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Marriage is a coming...

Quote: Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?
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Pope Paul VI
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Are there memories left...

Quote: My husband and I went to Venice, Italy, for our first-year anniversary and spent a day on the Island of Burano. There, we had lunch at the famed Trattoria al Gatto Nero da Ruggero - one of the most incredible meals of our lives.
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Maneet Chauhan
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My husband and I...

Quote: My intention still is to write a play to commemorate, possibly rather skeptically, the 50th anniversary of the Russian revolution. I started it at the beginning of 1966, but confronted with the enormous importance and reality of that revolution, I absolutely boggle. I don't know what to do about it.
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Tom Stoppard
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My intention still is...

Quote: I visited Libya in September 1996 for the 27th anniversary of the 'revolution' - a military coup that a 27-year-old Gadhafi led to topple the monarchy and since which he has ruled. Some were optimistic that Gadhafi's 'revolution' could herald a new Libya, but it didn't take long for his brutality to stamp out any such hopes.
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Mona Eltahawy
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I visited Libya in...

Quote: I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary; I'd been there five years. It just felt right to leave.
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Katherine Kelly
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I always took 'Coronation...

Quote: David Letterman was my guy growing up. My parents recorded the tenth anniversary special for me, and I watched it 40 times.
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Timothy Simons
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David Letterman was my...

Quote: Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Anniversaries are like birthdays:...

Quote: I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching.
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Linda Evangelista
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I did that Dior...

Quote: This year, 1996, has been designated the 'Year of the Vaccine,' commemorating the 200th anniversary of Edward Jenner's vaccination of James Phipps with cowpox virus and subsequent challenge with smallpox virus. Insight into the nature of viruses, and how viruses interact with mammalian cells, has evolved since the turn of the century.
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Peter C. Doherty
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This year, 1996, has...

Quote: I was always very grateful to 'em and am grateful to 'em now. I went back a couple of years ago and did their 20th anniversary show. But the longer I stayed on Hee Haw, the worse things got for me musically.
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Buck Owens
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I was always very...

Quote: It definitely wasn't like, 'Hey, I'm going to steal that, and nobody's going to know.' The original 'T.R.O.Y.' came out in 1992, and it was like a 20th anniversary kind of thing. All of those intentions were there for it to be resurrecting a classic for a new generation. I tried to honor it.
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Lupe Fiasco
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It definitely wasn't like,...

Quote: My husband and I went to Bald Head Island for our four-year anniversary. We spent the night in bed with champagne, tequila and Krispy Kreme doughnuts and watched a boxing match on Showtime.
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Teri Polo
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Quote: John Glenn's anniversaries have followed me all of my life. I was born in 1962, the year he orbited Earth.
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Gregory H. Johnson
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John Glenn's anniversaries have...

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